Come on. Nut up and own it. It was beautiful...
Posted on 10/30/2009 12:48:44 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON ---- It may be highly improbable mathematically, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that the encoded profanity contained in one of his veto messages was "a wild coincidence."
Speaking to reporters at the White House, the Republican governor said: "That was a total coincidence. It was one of those wild coincidences."
The first letter in seven lines of the message, when read from top to bottom, combine to spell out "F• you."
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Uh huh.
Plausible denial. ;)
Key word: Wild.
“California, California!
We’ll drink a keg of booze
‘till we sway inside our shoes”
Well, the articel doesn’t say what the last line is.
One in ten million isn’t zero.
But it is close enough to make me think it wasn’t an accident.
Letters to the editor sometimes carry a coded message.
Question is, did they realize that it was there as a wild coincidence, and just kept it that way, or not?
He didn’t deny it, he just said it was a wild coincidence.
Elaine: “Well you have to admit, it IS a coincidence.”
Writer: “That all it is, just a coincidence.”
Elaine: “A pretty big coincidence.”
Writer: “No, it’s just a coincidence. There are no big coincidences or small coincidences, just coincidences.”
/seinfeld
I was kind of impressed that he did it...
What a girly man.
This isn’t even the first time this has been done. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, I believe, SPY magazine, a monthly, reported about a resolution in the Congressional Record in favor of a constituent that, when the first letters of each line were read down, read F***YOUBOB.
I don’t have the resources to track this down now.
sure it was. While they run the state into the ground, they spend their time and our money on juvenile crap like this.
The probabilities could be as low as:
27 to the 10th power, or one in 205,891,132,094,649... or one in about 205 Trillion. This is assuming:
There was no overflow in my calculator in a number that large; the letters are equal in occurrence, but of course they are not; the 27th "letter" factors in a paragraph start.
Come on. Nut up and own it. It was beautiful...
Of COURSE the arrangement of letters was deliberate. The interesting mystery is, Did Arnold HIMSELF know in advance?, or was this just a freelance job by some sophomoric staffers?
Be fair to the Governor.
Unless there’s evidence to the contrary, we should take him at his word.
Lose the cynicism, people!
Lose your jaded assumptions about politicians.
Schwarzenegger would never be vulgar in communicating with the legislature.
He isn’t that sort of man.
I wouldn’t support him if he were.
Take your negativity elsewhere.
Uh, yeah...
A wildly HILARIOUS coincidence.
Speaking profanity to pansies.
I agree.
Actually, the first 2 letters were “T” and “I”. The guy he’d be saying it to was “Tom”. So it reads, “Tom, I F....U”. How many millions more does that make it?
"He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga — and his future in baseball."
The article is wrong. It wasn’t profanity. It was vulgarity.
Riiiiiight.... remember, Ahnolt’s an actor.
Yeah, nobody gets that definition right anymore...
Of course a few decades ago people would have been more offended by the other guy’s use of the word “ass” than of “gay”
Anyhow, Arnold wins the round, even if he did get caught on his little trick ;-)
Gave me a good laugh. Even passed it around a bit.
LOL
Seriously
Unusual
Rino
Event
!
“No, it’s just a coincidence. There are no big coincidences or small coincidences, just coincidences.”
I might go along with this, had the human race never discovered statistics and probability.
Some of his opponents are eying the governor’s job. This sort of thing is common in politics. Remember, he is a “republican” and that’s enough for his opponents to sling dirt at him.
Isn't that rule #1?
LOL!
You guys don’t really think he wrote it? Some staffer did and he signed it, probably without knowing.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.